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Re:Please review my twitter clone by brk on Friday July 10, 2009 @11:46AM (#697821)
Honest question: Why?

Why are you attempting to make a Twitter clone? (I'm genuinely curious)

Re:Please review my twitter clone by mgrouchy on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:24PM (#697905)
I think that is exactly the question to be asking. Of course the other question to ask is whats up with the horrible unprofessional looking logo?
Re:Please review my twitter clone by zacharydanger on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:28PM (#697914)
It's a Laconica install. This is pointless. It's like saying, "Checkout my StackOverflow clone" and then linking to a phpBB install.
Re:Please review my twitter clone by clay on Friday July 10, 2009 @02:34PM (#698139)
Here's a twitter clone idea you can steal:

a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: Why are you attempting to make a Twitter clone (today)?

Re:Please review my twitter clone by zacharydanger on Friday July 10, 2009 @05:25PM (#698423)
Sounds like Yammer.com, which is Twitter aimed at internal business teams.
Re:Please review my twitter clone by dryicerx on Friday July 10, 2009 @11:54AM (#697831)
Seem to be running the Identica platform, is there any features you are providing that Twitter/Identica does not have at the moment?
Re:Please review my twitter clone by jonursenbach on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:38PM (#697940)
Learn to use a spell checker. There's your review.
Re:Please review my twitter clone by secgeek on Friday July 10, 2009 @01:46PM (#698064)
i think yes i need to use spell checker.. but its just a start,so it will take some time..
Re:Please review my twitter clone by jasoncartwright on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:06PM (#697854)
My friends are on twitter, why should I use this?
Re:Please review my twitter clone by aassddff on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:47PM (#697960)
It's open source (laconi.ca), scalable, easy to install, and easy to theme/develop with. It uses the openmicroblogging protocol giving you the ability to subscribe to users on other services and receive their updates, etc. It allows image uploading via other services APIs from the site itself. It has a twitter compatible API, you can subscribe to your twitter friends, as well as cross post to twitter, etc. It has XMPP, Email, SMS, API gateways. URL shortening, the ability to create groups, etc, etc. I've been following it's development off and on for about a year now, and great project. I don't use twitter or laconica/identica myself, so the usefulness of it is arguable. Regardless, I've had fun playing with the code.
Re:Please review my twitter clone by moe on Friday July 10, 2009 @01:42PM (#698056)
You didn't answer his question.
Re:Please review my twitter clone by okeumeni on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:14PM (#697874)
Good work!

I know how hard it is to try to build a tool that already exist, one advice quit doing twitter; instead build a good complement of twitter. Think of features that twitter does not offer, find ways to leverage the power of twitter, use its API to provide cooler stuff.

One thing to know is that the hardest part is not to implement twitter as an application; the hardest part is to convince people to use it and technically scale.

Re:Please review my twitter clone by adgp on Friday July 10, 2009 @04:40PM (#698332)
what is the meaning of the word "doign" in the website's logo?
Re:Please review my twitter clone by secgeek on Saturday July 11, 2009 @04:42AM (#698987)
thats a typo,need to modify..
Re:Please review my twitter clone by TweedHeads on Friday July 10, 2009 @02:10PM (#698108)
Colors are dull, use vibrant colors to appeal the younger generation.